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Article: Spliff, wobble, splice! Now dance DJs are doing film music
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 31, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Walk into any club and you can see screens silently spooling
out films to a techno soundtrack. Citizen Kane or Spacevixens; it
doesn't matter, they're all just eye candy, another sensory
ingredient in the club mix.
It's tempting to see this subjugation of film as a kind of
clubbers' revenge. After all, most modern movies use music in much
the same way, slapping songs on to stories simply to lend
atmosphere or provide some easy period wallpaper.
A new project put together by Sight and Sound seeks to go beyond
this mutual referencing and recycling. Earlier this year, the
magazine commissioned musicians from today's musical avant-garde to
score films from cinema's avant-garde. The result is ...